The Time Machine

Aren't you forgetting something?

I-I don't know.

It has something to do

with the third differential coefficient.

Not that.

Tonight.

What?

Emma?

What time is it?

Almost 5:00.

Oh, my God.

My proposal for utilizing solar power... rejected.

My concepts for harnessing micro energy waves... rejected.

The Dean suggests that I focus on something

that might actually help mankind...

like his study on the benefits of tobacco consumption!

Alex, the problem is

your ideas are a bit too... radical.

The problem is with the faculty.

They're dinosaurs.

They're already extinct.

They just don't know it.

You know, one day they'll be discovered

by some future archeologist

and he won't know what to make of them.

The dim little eyes, devoid of any curios...

Alex, it's your first year as associate professor.

You might want to play things a little more conservatively.

You sound just like my father.

Look at them, Philby.

All alike.

All in identical bowler hats.

Do you want your students to turn out like that?

I want my students to be prepared

for the realities of the world

they're about to greet.

Well, I don't.

I want them to run along this street

and knock off every bowler they see.

Mrs. Watchit!

Oh, huzzah, the master's home.

Did you get it?

Hello, Mr. Philby.

Hello, Mrs. Watchit.

You're looking in the pink.

Must be all the exercise I get

scampering up and down these stairs like a wee lamb.

Don't torture me! Did you get it?

I got it.

Oh, good. Let me see it.

But don't you think for one moment

I'm going to let you go out in that filthy jacket.

Now, go in there and change.

And you've got another letter from that annoying little man.

Oh.

Well, go ahead. Switch it on.

It'll help people keep their teeth

well into their 40s.

You might think about having that cleaned.

Oh, who has the time?

How did you know with Molly?

Know what?

You two were meant to be together.

She made the best shepherd's pie I ever tasted.

Don't you have a single romantic bone in your body?

No. I'm all bowler hat.

Why do you waste your time on that crackpot?

Because he has some very interesting ideas.

A professor at Columbia university

should not be corresponding with a crazy German bookkeeper.

He's a patent clerk, not a bookkeeper

and I think Mr. Einstein deserves

all the support I can give him.

I wonder if we'll ever go too far.

With what?

With this...

with... all of this.

No such thing.

All right.

How do I look?

Practically decent.

Really, Alex, good luck tonight.

She's a fine girl.

She's done wonderful things for you.

And don't worry.

You still have that alluring smell of chalk.

Oh, got to hurry.

Oh, that's more like it.

You look a proper gentleman, for once.

Well, you better hope so.

If Emma turns me down, you'll be next.

Oh, I'm already swooning.

All right... wish me luck.

Thank you.

Fresh flowers.

Fresh flowers.

Have some flowers, sir?

Not tonight, thanks.

No, I... I promised her flowers.

Oh... spectacular!

Spectacular waste of money.

Damn thing's always breaking down.

Do you need a lift?

Yes, yes.

How do you keep the water temperature stable?

Well, there's a cantilevered gasket

on the fuel regulator...

Oh... God, uh...

Much obliged.

Uh, I'm always forgetting the damn brake.

Look, hop in.

I'll give you a perambulation

before it breaks down again.

Oh, uh, I'm afraid

I have a prior engagement.

Well, another time then.

We perambulate here most every night.

Certainly.

Get a horse!

Yes, yes.

Alexander!

Oh! Oh!

You're late, Professor.

I got here as soon as I could.

Oh, they say it's all the rage in Paris

but I just picked it up... five dollars at Macy's.

Silly, isn't it?

Very silly.

I like it.

Well? Where are they?

What?

The flowers.

You promised me flowers tonight. Don't you even remember?

Oh, I'm sorry.

I-I was... I was distracted, I...

Well, there's something new.

Uh...

Emma, I need to talk to you.

They're too small.

Oh, uh, shall we walk through the park?

Yes.

Professor, you're shivering.

I hope you're not coming down with something.

Well, I-I'm afraid I am.

I'm not sleeping very well, and...

and even when I'm awake, I'm-I'm not much use.

I can't eat or... or-or think

or do much of anything anymore.

And the worst part is

I don't know that I'll ever be well.

I think there's only one remedy, and...

that's for you to marry me

and spend the rest of your life with me.

Oh, Emma

I know it's right.

I know we're meant to be together.

It's the only thing in my entire life

I've never had to think about.

Oh, Alex!

Uh, uh...

wait, I have something for you.

You know the moment is rather dying here.

I-I know. Hold on.

Oh... ( sniffles )

Well, I know it's not a diamond...

A moonstone?

Well, it's your birthstone.

I thought...

You thought right.

I just might cry.

I couldn't help but overhear.

Two... fine young people